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Trouble Firmware WMS5316
Hi, I recently bought 1 WMS5316 and 2 AP WNDAP350. I boot the wms5316 and click on every menu with firefox6 on W7 32bits - Everything is ok. Then before to tune all the stuff, I decide, like ...
Hi Guys,
I've only recently joined and already wish I read these posts before agreeing to a quote for 1 x wms5316 and 8 x wndap350's, now I look after these beasts at a local school.
I fell for the mistake of upgrading the AP firmware to 2.0.27(to cure odd rebooting issue), and the settings reverting to default(what a nightmare that was!). After reconfiguring the AP's to their new IP range, they where still unmanageable by the WMS5316.
I raised a call with Netgear, very dubious about upgrading it (if it lost it's settings, I'd have more pain). On their suggestion I upgraded to 2.1.2, and managed to get 2 AP's managed.
These new firmware's have no manual OID entry screen, so when some AP's didn't show I asked again for help.
I've since been pointed towards upgrading to 2.1.4(which worked without loosing settings!), which still doesn’t have a OID entry screen, still fails to auto discover on a non-default(192...) IP range, but I now have 8 managed AP's.
It's a bit messy, but the non manageable AP's needed a factory reset, a laptop on the 192.168.0.x range was then used to reconfigure each(since they all default to 192.168.0.237 it as to be one at a time!) to the right country settings and IP range(10.xxx for me), one I'd confirmed it was OK, on to the next.
I still think we need a crib sheet for different setting scenarios, there are some rogue AP/RF settings that don't work well, these need testing by Netgear, and we the customers need to be advised, before we loose all our hair!
Best of Luck!
Dave.
I've only recently joined and already wish I read these posts before agreeing to a quote for 1 x wms5316 and 8 x wndap350's, now I look after these beasts at a local school.
I fell for the mistake of upgrading the AP firmware to 2.0.27(to cure odd rebooting issue), and the settings reverting to default(what a nightmare that was!). After reconfiguring the AP's to their new IP range, they where still unmanageable by the WMS5316.
I raised a call with Netgear, very dubious about upgrading it (if it lost it's settings, I'd have more pain). On their suggestion I upgraded to 2.1.2, and managed to get 2 AP's managed.
These new firmware's have no manual OID entry screen, so when some AP's didn't show I asked again for help.
I've since been pointed towards upgrading to 2.1.4(which worked without loosing settings!), which still doesn’t have a OID entry screen, still fails to auto discover on a non-default(192...) IP range, but I now have 8 managed AP's.
It's a bit messy, but the non manageable AP's needed a factory reset, a laptop on the 192.168.0.x range was then used to reconfigure each(since they all default to 192.168.0.237 it as to be one at a time!) to the right country settings and IP range(10.xxx for me), one I'd confirmed it was OK, on to the next.
I still think we need a crib sheet for different setting scenarios, there are some rogue AP/RF settings that don't work well, these need testing by Netgear, and we the customers need to be advised, before we loose all our hair!
Best of Luck!
Dave.